The Drug of Hope (eBook / ePub)

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Four men of the Knights Templar gather in secret at Avignon in 1314. The leader, Jacques De Molay, knows he faces certain death when he is denounced by Louis IV and seeks to guard the secrets of the Knights Templar. They agree that Guy Du Busson...

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Four men of the Knights Templar gather in secret at Avignon in 1314. The leader, Jacques De Molay, knows he faces certain death when he is denounced by Louis IV and seeks to guard the secrets of the Knights Templar. They agree that Guy Du Busson should flee to Scotland, carrying with him the heir to the Jesus blood line; Charles De Chevalier should carry the Holy Grail to Newfoundland; and Francois Marriott should seek protection in Switzerland. Guy Du Busson finds a new life in Scotland and, using his skills as a soldier, fights the English at Bannockburn with Robert the Bruce. Charles de Chevalier finds Newfoundland, hides the Holy Grail in a complex and booby-trapped shaft over which they hold guard, and joins the Beothucks Indian tribe. Francois Marriott seeks shelter in Switzerland and founds the first bank; he also helps Leopold defeat the Hapsburgs and converts to the Jewish faith. The three men and their followers form The Sect, a secret organization that protects the true origins of Christianity.

Seven hundred years later, a young girl named Mary is ritually raped and disappears. The wife and daughter of police sergeant Sam Brooker are killed, and Sam seeks the help of his past commander in the Special Air Services, David York. As Sam and David try to unravel the secrets of The Sect, they discover they are being hunted by The Sects assassin, Crusadera deadly killer. David seeks help from his father, John McCallister, a professor of theology, and his ex bosses from MI6. He discovers that another organization, called The Cult, is also seeking their death.

Vivian Goldsmith, the daughter of the financier Roland Goldsmith, becomes involved with David, and he finds his emotions tested like never before as the circumstances throw the pair together in an epic adventure.

Autoren-Porträt von Francois Napoleon Jones

A soldier rescued Francois mother along her way to a hospital in the winter of 1947, the coldest winter in two hundred years. When her child was born, she named him Napoleon at the soldiers request.

When Francois was eleven, his father left for Lebanon to visit his ill mother and never returned. Believing that his father had died, the family moved to Wilmslow and his mother remarried Lawrence Jones. However, the marriage collapsed and his mother placed Francois and his sister in a childrens home. Several months later, they were rescued from the hands of abusive foster parents by their mother to start a new life in a small flat in Cheetham Hill, Manchester.

At sixteen, Francois left school to become an articled accountant, but he soon became bored and joined the army at the age of seventeen. Nicknamed Jonah, he became the leader of a group of four friends called The TerribleTwins, and they enjoyed several adventures together until he left the army when he was twenty-one.

With his name abbreviated to Frank Jones, he spent two years in retail management with H. Samuel. He left the retail trade and became an industrial engineer working at Cheshire Council and then the City of Bradford Metropolitan Council. He specialized in office automation, helped design early word processing systems, and was involved in several controversial implementations that resulted in trade union strikes before staff accepted the new technology.

Franks early work in office automation led to minor celebrity, and he became a lecturer and writer on the development of technology in business, coauthoring two books and several articles. From 1979 onward, Frank built and managed a series of small software companies that traded all over the world.

He has been married three times and has six children. He now lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa.